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How to create a new "view" page with contents embedded from other pages?

Juan Vazquez1

I would like to ask if it's possible to create a new page which contains contents from another pages. The idea is which the new page acts as a "view" of other page contents.

I think an example will explain better which I would like to do. Imagine I've two pages with the next contents:

Page 1: Summary a; Section b; Section c; Results d;
Page 2: Summary e; Section f; Section g; Results h;

I would like to create a third page like this:
Page 3: Introduction; Summary a; Summary e;

And I would like to see "Page 3" updated automatically if I update "Page 1; Summary a" or "Page 2; Summary e".

Can it be done with confluence or any plug-in?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

juan

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Juan Vazquez1

I've "discovered" the "excerpt" and the "include-excerpt" macros, which allows to do tat (sorry, new confluence user)

On the other hand exist a "multi-excerpt" plug-in:

https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/169

It isn't marked as compatible with confluence 4. Anyone knows if there is a compatible version of multi-excerpt for Confluence 4?

Regards,

juan

David Peterson

The other main plugins for this kind of thing are Reporting/Scaffolding and Metadata. Not sure if Metadata is 4.0 compatible, but Reporting/Scaffolding are not yet, but we're working on it. Keep an eye out for updates to all the above I guess - 4.0 is still a bit fresh yet for the 3rd party plugins to catch up, especially when it's such a massive change.

Juan Vazquez1

Hi David,

Thank you very much for your response. It's very appreciated :-)

I'll keep update about those plug-ins!

Thanks very much!

juan

David at David Simpson Apps

I would create the summaries, sections and results as separate pages in an "inclusions library" and then build up each page using the include macro to add the components that are required

For a good overview on how to do this, check:

Organisation is Key by Matt Hodges
Content reuse on a wiki by Sarah Maddox

Juan Vazquez1

oooo thanks very much for your answer.

I wast just exploring the {include} macro because it allows to include contents between spaces. I think that contents organisation could be a key for successfull usage of this macro as you say

Your answer is very appreciated!

Regards,

juan

Sander Brienen [Avisi]

Scaffolding and reporting are mostly used for displaying lists of attributes and values on a page. Not for including complete page sections on a different page.

Although scaffolding and reporting are very powerful, I would not use these in this context.

Sander Brienen [Avisi]

An excerpt is the bit of text you would typically see before the "read more..." link. Excerpts are on the original page and can be hidden on the page itself, if you like. Include-excerpt works like the include macro but only includes the text in the excerpt-macro body. This sounds like the way to go in this case. Multi-excerpt doesn't sound useful in your situation.

You can combine the include macro with the excerpt macro's. For example, build up page1 as follows:

{excerpt}summary a{excerpt}

{include}section b{include}

{include}section c{include}

{include}results d{include}

David Peterson

Reporting is quite capable of doing that, it just needs a way to identify what you want to pull out, same as excerpt/multi-excerpt/etc. Not really a huge difference there really...